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God, you and your sons and your daughters, 28 Observe and obey all these words which I
your male and female servants, and the Levite command you, that it may go well with you
who is within your gates, since he has no por- and your children after you forever, when you
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tion nor inheritance with you. Take heed to do what is good and right in the sight of the
yourself that you do not offer your burnt offer- LORD your God.
ings in every place that you see; but in the 29 “When the LORD your God cuts off from
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place which the LORD chooses, in one of your before you the nations which you go to dispos-
tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offer- sess, and you displace them and dwell in their
ings, and there you shall do all that I com- land, take heed to yourself that you are not
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mand you. ensnared to follow them, after they are
15 “However, you may slaughter and eat meat destroyed from before you, and that you do
within all your gates, whatever your heart not inquire after their gods, saying, ‘How did
desires, according to the blessing of the LORD these nations serve their gods? I also will do
your God which He has given you; the unclean likewise.’ You shall not worship the LORD
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and the clean may eat of it, of the gazelle and your God in that way; for every abomination to
the deer alike. Only you shall not eat the the LORD which He hates they have done to
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blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water. their gods; for they burn even their sons and
17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of daughters in the fire to their gods.
your grain or your new wine or your oil, of the 32 “Whatever I command you, be careful to
firstborn of your herd or your flock, of any of observe it; you shall not add to it nor take
your offerings which you vow, of your freewill away from it.
offerings, or of the heave offering of your
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hand. But you must eat them before the LORD Psalm 37:18–22
your God in the place which the LORD your 18
God chooses, you and your son and your The LORD knows the days of the
daughter, your male servant and your female upright,
servant, and the Levite who is within your And their inheritance shall be forever.
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gates; and you shall rejoice before the LORD
your God in all to which you put your hands. evil time,
19 Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake And in the days of famine they shall
the Levite as long as you live in your land. be satisfied.
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20 “When the LORD your God enlarges your But the wicked shall perish;
border as He has promised you, and you say, And the enemies of the LORD,
‘Let me eat meat,’ because you long to eat Like the splendor of the meadows,
meat, you may eat as much meat as your heart shall vanish.
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desires. If the place where the LORD your Into smoke they shall vanish away.
God chooses to put His name is too far from 21 The wicked borrows and does not
you, then you may slaughter from your herd repay,
and from your flock which the LORD has given But the righteous shows mercy and
you, just as I have commanded you, and you gives.
may eat within your gates as much as your 22 For those blessed by Him shall inherit
heart desires. Just as the gazelle and the the earth,
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deer are eaten, so you may eat them; the But those cursed by Him shall be
unclean and the clean alike may eat them.
23 Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, cut off.
for the blood is the life; you may not eat the life Proverbs 12:12–14
with the meat. You shall not eat it; you shall
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pour it on the earth like water. You shall not 12 The wicked covet the catch of evil men,
eat it, that it may go well with you and your But the root of the righteous yields
children after you, when you do what is right fruit.
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in the sight of the LORD. Only the holy things 13 The wicked is ensnared by the
which you have, and your vowed offerings, transgression of his lips,
you shall take and go to the place which the But the righteous will come through
LORD chooses. And you shall offer your burnt trouble.
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offerings, the meat and the blood, on the altar 14 A man will be satisfied with good by the
of the LORD your God; and the blood of your fruit of his mouth,
sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of And the recompense of a man’s hands
the LORD your God, and you shall eat the meat. will be rendered to him.
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